Salesforce Developer

Salesforce DeveloperImmediate need for a Salesforce Developer for a position in the Banking & Financial Industry. This is a 6+ month's contract opportunity with long-term potential located in McLean, VA.The main goal of this role is to design technical solutions leveraging Salesforce capabilities + extended apps ecosystem and, legacy systems that will deliver accelerated value towards achieving strategic business goals with clear focus on success metrics and ROI. This role reports into the Salesforce Center of Excellence Director.The ideal candidate is a change agent with consulting experience who will work with key business area stakeholders, the CoE team and our IT Partners to understand business processes and design, prototype, help develop enhancements, capabilities, process automation and customer's insights that are aligned with the project vision, while mitigating risk.Salesforce Certifications required.Deep understanding of businesses and processes preferred.Responsibilities: Responsible for connecting business goals and challenges and for the overall design of the application solution on Salesforce.com.Leads Discovery Workshops with key stakeholders to understand Single Family strategic business goals, needs, processes and current use of the platform, and any other customer centric data and processes not currently on SFDC.Analyzes and maps business areas strategic goals, processes and success metrics with Salesforce capabilities.Demonstrates Salesforce and extended AppExchange apps that can fit our needs. Explains complex technology concepts in simple language.Partners with SMEs across IT, Data Governance, Innovation Lab and other areas to design solutions that will deliver maximum value across the enterprise.Designs solutions with maximum usability while minimizing complex code and customization.Delivers detailed design proof-of-concepts, wireframes, prototypes, in PPT and sandbox, as needed.Creates documentation of technical design, support plan and enable best practices and governance measures.Writes user stories and acceptance criteria for complex Agile deployments.Project manage solution scope, timelines, quality and cost and escalates issues for resolution and to mitigate risk.Drives communications with all key stakeholders including delivering project updates and gathering project sign offs from CoE Lead and key stakeholders and maintains alignment.Partners with Customer Success team to design end-user training materials and go-live support.Stay current on Salesforce releases, new features, product roadmaps and applications available from 3rd parties on the Salesforce AppExchange.Salesforce Certifications Required: Administrator.Salesforce Certifications Preferred: Sales Cloud and/or Service Cloud Consultant or Analyst Consultant or other SFDC specialization.5+ years of direct experience in all aspects of developing and implementing CRM or salesforce platform applications.Experience developing solutions using Apex and VisualForce, preferred.Strong understanding of key SFDC architectural concepts and how they influence design.Change management experience.Demonstrate ability to influence stakeholders to meet objectives.Excellent analytical, technology, communication, decision making and problem solving skills.Strong relationship management skills.Experience in implementation projects using Agile methods and practices, preferred.Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.Our client is a leading Banking & Financial Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. Qualified candidates should apply online for immediate consideration.